Conference Registration | EADI-City of Bonn Partnership Launch Event | Horizon 2020 Funding Opportunities

News from EADI Conference Registration Now Open! The 14th EADI General Conference set for 23 -26 June 2014 on Responsible Development in a Polycentric World is now open for registration!To register follow this link http://www.gc2014.org/logistics/registration/ Keynote Speakers We are extremely delighted to inform you Dr. Nancy Birdsall, President of Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington D.C is among the confirmed participants for the conference. Dr. Birdsall will also deliver the keynote address during the EADI 40 Years celebration, one of the outstanding highlights of the conference program. Brief biographies of the confirmed speakers and the latest conference program are also now available on the conference website www.gc2014.org Conference Event: EADI Book Exhibition In the framework of its 14th General Conference, EADI will host a Book Exhibition on Tuesday 24th June and Wednesday 25th June 2014. EADI extends a warm invitation to publishers to present publications at the conference venue in the two large exhibition rooms. To register as an exhibitor, please proceed to www.gc2014.org/registration/book-exhibition and download the form. EADI – 2014 in Partnership with the City of Bonn: 1st Milestone The opening event of the 2014 annual partnership between EADI and the City of Bonn will start off with a plenary discussion contextualizing the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Germany. The discussants selected to take on this topical issue represent various voices in society; the church, academics, policy makers and a representative from a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). This opening event in German, will take place at the Town hall in Bonn on 18 February 2014 at 1630 hours. It is open to the public and more information can be accessed on  http://eadi40.tumblr.com/auftakt Mobility Between Europe and South Africa: Apply Now! EUSA_ID is a mobility program offering study, training and research periods in Europe for South African Master and PhD candidates and staff and provides European PhD candidates the opportunity to spend a research period in South Africa. EADI is a partner in the programme and invites you to apply. Deadline: 31st March 2014 Summer School 2014: The Politics and Economics of Aid Between 2nd of June 2014 until 13th of June 2014, the University of Antwerp (BE), Universidad de Cantabria (ES), Universidad de Murcia (ES), University of Birmingham (UK), Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL), the University of Florence (IT) in collaboration with EADI, will jointly hold the second edition Summer School on the Politics and Economics of Aid. The primary objective of the program is to support ongoing research on the political, economic and institutional aspects of development cooperation (aid) and aid effectiveness. More information can be found here. Socio-Economic Social Sciences (SSH) Funding Opportunities – Horizon 2020 Theme I : Health, Demographic Change and Well-being To assist SSH researchers in identifying funding opportunities for different topics, EADI has established this new section. It lists current funding opportunities with relevance to Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in various research areas within Horizon 2020. To view the list of calls under the themes of health, demographic change and well-being for the year 2014, click here. Featured EADI Member Mundus Maris is made up of scientists, artists, school teachers, concerned parents from different regions of the world, joining forces to promote transitions towards sustainability values and practices as well as human and dignified lives. Members of the organization strive to provide scientific and relevant indigenous knowledge and encourage artistic expression about the sea in order to promote its restoration, conservation and sustainable use, to further the study, understanding and respect of aquatic ecosystems and associated biological and cultural diversity. More information can be found on  www.mundusmaris.org/index.php/en/

Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Impact Evaluation ? Are We ?Off the Gold Standard?? What Can We Learn from Impact Evaluations? Current Challenges in Impact Evaluation Is Impact Evaluation Evaluation? Impact Evaluation and Welfare Evaluation Does Impact Evaluation in Development Matter? Well, It Depends What It?s For! Learning to Co-operate: Youth Engagement with the Co-operative Revival in Africa Capturing Critical Institutionalism: A Synthesis of Key Themes and Debates Interest Rates and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: Recent Global Evidence Growing Up in Ethiopia and Andhra Pradesh: The Impact of Social Protection Schemes on Girls? Roles and Responsibilities Measuring Governance: Implications of Conceptual Choices Financing the Clean Development Mechanism through Debt-for-Efficiency Swaps? Case Study Evidence from a Uruguayan Wind Farm Project Globalization Trends and Regional Development ? Dynamics of FDI and Human Capital Flows * During March 2014, Palgrave Macmillan, publisher of EJDR will make ALL journals including EJDR free to view online – including current issues and online archives. Working for the Few Political Capture and Economic Inequality Authors: Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and Nicholas Galasso Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population, and seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years. The World Economic Forum has identified economic inequality as a major risk to human progress, impacting social stability within countries and threatening security on a global scale. In this paper, Oxfam shows how extreme inequality is not inevitable, with examples of policies from around the world which have reduced inequality and developed more representative politics, benefiting all, both rich and poor. Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development. Edited by Gabriela Dutrenit, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete and Alexandra Vera-Cruz EADI in partnership with Palgrave Macmillan in late 2013, launched in this first book from the EADI Global Development Series. This initial volume presents excellent and timely contributions from a global cast of academics and policy makers examining economic development as a process of learning and technological accumulation, showing how economic development is a process involving creative destruction.

Call for Applications: Learning Events for Researchers from Developing Countries 2014, Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE), Switzerland, Deadline: 28 February 2014 Call for Proposals: Visiting Research Fellowship in Critical Diversity Studies 2014 – 2016, Swiss University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. Deadline: 20 March 2014 Call for Applications: Engineering for Development (E4D) Doctoral Scholarships ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Deadline: 31 March 2014 Call for Papers: Political Reflection in South America and Post-Communist Europe The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Deadline: 31 July 2014 More calls on the EADI Website Pull, don’t Push! Servicing the Motor of a Fragile Economy The Broker Online Blog, Author: Rens Twijnstra What Will it Take to Really Tackle Inequality? Oxfam Policy and Practice, Author: Katherine Trebeck A Solution to the Inequality Politics of Post-2015? Center for Global Governance Blog, Author: Alex Cobham Securing Livelihoods Informal Economy Practices and Institutions Book, 2013, Edited by Isabelle Hillenkamp, Frédéric Lapeyre, and Andreia Lemaître *First Chapter is Open Access Creating Robust Evidence through Knowledge Integration Working Paper, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2013, Author: Wenny Ho The negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements between East Africa Community (EAC) member states and the European Union have once again failed to strike a deal. The two parties failed to agree on contentious issues of duties and taxes on exports and on Most Favoured Nations. However the meeting managed to conclude on the issues of the institutional arrangements and dispute settlement. Access Denied. Abortion rights in Latin America CMI Brief vol.13 no.1, 2014 Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute, Authors: Camila Gianella-Malca, Siri Gloppen Fostering More and Better Jobs ECDPM Report, 2014, Includes articles by: Roland Michelitsch, International Finance Corporation and Agnes Soucat & Rosemond Offei-Awuku from the African Development Bank Promoting Democracy: What Role for the Democratic Emerging Powers? DIE Discussion Paper 2/2014, Author: Schoenwaelder Gerd Exporting Legality: The Rise and Fall of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire and China The Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2014, Author: Mariya Tait Slys Will Changes to the International Tax System Benefit Low Income Countries? Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brief, 2014, Author: Moore, M. Human Trafficking, Globalisation and Transnational Feminist Response ISS Working Paper, 2014, Institute of International Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Author: Truong Thanh-Dam Inequality in Post-2015, Focus on the Targets not Goals Overseas Development Institute (ODI), 2014, Author: Claire Melamed More highlights in EADI Research, the gateway to the latest publications from over 150 EADI members. Corporate Influence in the Post-2015 Process GPF, Brot für die Welt and MISEREOR, Author: Lou Pingeot Measuring Urban Quality of Life, Can We Do Better? Development Progress Blog, Author: Judy baker New Paths for Development Finance Post2015 Online Resource, Author: Mahmoud Mohieldin PR Sociologie Politique – Sociologie du Developpement Institute of Economic and Social Studies, University of Paris, Starting Date : 01 September 2014 Environmental Change – Research Fellow Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Deadline: 19 February 2014 Participation, Power and Social Change – Research Fellow Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Deadline: 20 February 2014 Program Officer – Fellowship Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Deadline: 23 February 2014 Principal Researcher – Environmental Economics International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Deadline: 26 February 2014 Research Fellow – Humanitarian Policy Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Deadline: 26 February 2014 More jobs on the EADI Website. Workshop on Ethics in International Development 15 February 2014, University of East Anglia, UK (free of charge) Interested parties to email: g.neff@uea.ac.uk Thor Heyerdahl Summer School in Environmental Governance: The Green Economy 16 June 2014 – 27 June 2014, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (free of charge) Deadline: 20 February 2014 2014 Summer Workshop: Local Justice, Global Standards and Critical Contemporary Challenges 11 – 19 July 2014, The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Hague. Deadline: 21 February 2014 Global Poverty and Inclusive Development 22 June 2014 – 27 June 2014, University of Amsterdam, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Deadline: 01 April 2014 Sexuality, Culture and Society 13 July 2014 – 07 August 2014, University of Amsterdam, Deadline: 01 April 2014 Global Media Forum 2014: From Information to Participation – Challenges for the Media 30 June 2014 – 02 July 2014, Bonn Germany

Journée Portes ouvertes à l’IHEAL (6 mars, Paris)

Vous trouverez en ficher attaché l’affiche concernant la  Journée « Portes ouvertes à l’IHEAL »
qui aura lieu le  6 mars 2014 de 13h30 à 17h dans l’amphithéâtre de l’IHEAL

PORTES OUVERTES 6 MARS 2014.pdf

Conférence-débat : Au cœur des métropoles brésiliennes (20 février, Paris)

Au cœur des métropoles brésiliennes,

Nouveaux enjeux dans les centre-villes à Rio et São Paulo

Alors qu’au Brésil les dynamiques de métropolisation ralentissent, on peut observer à Rio ou à São Paulo un mouvement de retour au centre, en termes de peuplement comme d’investissements. La période actuelle voit ainsi émerger de vastes opérations largement tournées vers les exigences de rentabilité du secteur privé de la construction et de l’immobilier, qui semble dominer et orienter les interventions urbaines. Par ailleurs, la brutalité du changement social et urbain en cours tend à stimuler l’émergence de mouvements de résistance sociale, en réaction directe aux projets et, plus largement, aux objectifs affichés de gentrification de ces quartiers centraux. Le débat vise ainsi à discuter les enjeux des grands projets de rénovation urbaine du centre des deux plus importantes métropoles brésiliennes.

INVITÉS :

• Renato CYMBALISTA
  Professeur à l´Institut d’Architecture et d´Urbanisme de l´Université de São Paulo (USP)
• Sarah FELDMAN
  Professeure à l´Institut d’Architecture et d´Urbanisme de l´Université de São Paulo (USP)
• Rafael Soares GONCALVES
  Maître de Conférénces (professor adjunto) à l´Université Catholique de Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Débat animé par : Aurélie LANDON
Centre SUD / PFVT

Centre Sud

Colloque du CIST – (27 et 28 mars, Paris)

Le Collège international des sciences du territoire (CIST) a le plaisir de vous inviter à participer à son 2e colloque international, qui se tiendra les jeudi 27 et vendredi 28 mars prochain sur le campus Paris Diderot :

Fronts et frontières des sciences du territoire
/FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES OF TERRITO//RIAL SCIENCES/

« /Les territoires sont à la fois une construction sociale et une matérialité observée par différents champs disciplinaires. Cette interdisciplinarité large constitue un front pionnier difficile mais nécessaire. Une autre frontière à dépasser est celle qui, trop souvent, éloigne les chercheurs des acteurs du développement territorial. Les données territoriales constituent un des domaines
par lesquels ces confrontations sont rendues fécondes/. »
Durant ces deux journées, 60 communications donneront lieux à des débats au sein de 18 sessions : conflits et compromis ; information territoriale ; médias et territoires ; mobilité, individu et territoire ; territoire comme fédérateur ; les territoires du vivre ensemble ; la cohésion territoriale comme projet ; les enjeux de la patrimonialisation ; intégration régionale ; données citoyennes ; transfrontalier ; les territoires à l’épreuve des flux ; territoires et proximités ; les individus acteurs du territoire ; territoires et alternatives énergétiques ; fractures territoriales ; indicateurs territoriaux.
Par ailleurs, deux séances plénières seront consacrées l’une à l’agriculture mondiale et l’autre aux intégrations régionales dans le monde.

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant /via/ le site http://cist2014.sciencesconf.org[1] où vous trouverez également le programme prévisionnel[2].

/The Collège international des scienc//es du territoire (CIST) is happy to invite you to its 2nd international conference on March, Thursday 27th and Friday 28th in Paris./

« Territories are both a social construct and a materiality observed by different disciplinary fields. This broad interdisciplinarity is a difficult, yet necessary, pioneer front. Another frontier to be crossed is the all too frequent gulf between researchers and the actors of territorial development. Territorial data are a field that offers opportunities for fertile debate. »
These two days will see 60 interventions within 18 sessions: /conflicts and compromises; //territorial /information; medias and territories; mobility, subject and territory; territoire as coordinator; the territories of the living togetherness; territorial cohesion as project; patrimonialisation at stake; regional integration; contributive data; cross-bordering; how territories resist to streams; territories and proximity; /individuals as territorial players; territories and energy alternatives; territorial gaps; // territorial /indicators.
/Besides, 2 plenary sessions will deal with worldwide agriculture and regional integration in the world./

Register now via http://cist2014.sciencesconf.org[3], where you’ll find the provisional programme[4].

[1] http://cist2014.sciencesconf.org
[2] http://www.gis-cist.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cist2014-programme_previsionnel.pdf
[3] http://cist2014.sciencesconf.org
[4] http://www.gis-cist.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cist2014-programme_previsionnel.pdf
[5] http://www.gis-cist.fr
[6] http://cist2014.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9
[7] http://www.gis-cist.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cist2014-programme_previsionnel.pdf
[8] mailto:actu-join@gis-cist.fr
[9] http://www.gis-cist.fr/axes-scientifiques/inscriptions-aux-axes-du-cist/
[10] mailto:actu-join@gis-cist.fr
[11] http://www.gis-cist.fr/index.php/main-sections/axes-de-recherche/formulaire-d-inscription-aux-axes-de-recherche/

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Elisabeth Cunin : « Métissage et multiculturalisme dans les sociétés post-esclavagistes, entre différence et ressemblance. Colombie, Mexique, Belize » (24 fevrier, Paris)

Lundi 24 février, à 14h30, à l’Université Paris Diderot, salle des thèses 580 F, 10 rue Françoise Dolto, 75013 Paris

devant un jury composé de:

Petites îles de Méditerranée : trésors de biodiversité (22 fév.,Marseille)

Conférence
Samedi 22 février 2014 – 17h00
Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar – Marseille

L’IRD et l’Alcazar vous invitent à la 6^ème conférence grand public du cycle « Iles laboratoires ».

Territoires isolés, souvent exigus, fragiles… les îles font face à des défis communs tout en construisant une écologie, une histoire et des activités qui leur sont propres. Pour les scientifiques, les îles constituent de véritables « laboratoires » où décrypter des phénomènes complexes et étudier les conditions d’un développement durable.

Petites îles de Méditerranée : trésors de biodiversité

Par Frédéric MEDAIL, écologue, professeur à l’Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE).

La Méditerranée fait partie des 34 « points-chauds » de la biodiversité mondiale. Mais cette biodiversité est mise à mal par l’impact des activités humaines, notamment le long des côtes. Les petites îles de Méditerranée, souvent difficiles d’accès et encore préservées, constituent des territoires refuges importants pour les espèces menacées. Il est indispensable de mieux les connaître et les protéger.

Salle des conférences
Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar
58 cours Belsunce, 13001 Marseille
Tél. : 04 91 55 90 00 – www.bmvr.marseille.fr
Bus : 81, Métro : Vieux-Port, Colbert, Noailles, J. Guesde
Tramway : ligne 2 arrêt Belsunce-Alcazar
Parking : Centre Bourse, Place de la Providence

Sur les ondes de Radio Grenouille
(Ré)-écoutez les conférences sur 88.8 FM Marseille chaque premier lundi du mois à 10h, ou sur
www.radiogrenouille.com/programmes-radio/emissions-speciales/les-iles-laboratoires-cycle-de-conferences

Toute la programmation
www.ird.fr/toute-l-actualite/colloques-et-manifestations/conferences-grand-public/cycle-de-conferences-iles-laboratoires

Dossier
Les îles, de la marge à la mondialisation

Contact
Service Culture scientifique – IRD
conference@ird.fr

Appel à candidatures Prix de thèse sur la ville édition 2014

Appel à candidatures

Organisé par l’APERAU INTERNATIONALE, la FNAU, le PUCA, avec l’appui du CERTU, le Prix de thèse sur la ville a pour objet de récompenser les meilleures thèses de doctorat soutenues en France ou à l’étranger, rédigées en langue française, et traitant de la ville avec :

– une ouverture interdisciplinaire ;
– une dimension spatiale sensible dans la façon de traiter les thèmes abordés ;
– une approche théorique et critique d’une part, concrète ou opérationnelle d’autre part, ces deux dimensions s’enrichissant l’une l’autre ;
– une réflexion sur l’action et (ou) vers l’action ;
– une dimension personnelle et innovante dans la démarche ;
– un cadre de référence international.

Ce Prix a pour but d’encourager les chercheurs à engager des doctorats sur la ville dans ses différentes dimensions et d’inciter les professeurs et les centres de recherche à les soutenir dans cette orientation. Les prix sont décernés par un jury constitué d’universitaires et de professionnels réputés.

Plus de détails à l’adresse : http://www.chantier.net/these/

Africa and the Indian Ocean: a long-term perspective – (24-27 February 2014, Paris)

The series of encounters co-organised by IFAS, UCT and Wits University aim at rethinking the exchanges that th have been taking place between the African continent and the Indian Ocean since the 11 century. On the opposite side of the colonial myth of a continent viewed as isolated and passive in the face of intercontinental exchanges, the proposed studies show that Africa was already integrated, well before any European irruption, into the commercial networks that were operating at the four corners of the Indian Ocean. Paying attention to the political and cultural dimensions of these material connections, the studies also show that such an integration was not limited to the maritime interface, but involved political and social formations on the actual continent.

Programme:

24 February | 14:00-15:30 | UCT | Honour Class
Thomas Vernet (University Paris I-Sorbonnne)
Indian Ocean networks from the 15th to the 19th century

25 February | 12:00-14:00 | HUMA Seminar Room | Seminar “Philology in Question” Series
Philippe Beaujard (University Paris I-Sorbonnne)
Magic and Islam in Madagascar. The Arabic-Malagasy Manuscripts of the Antemoro Region
Discussant: Shamil Jeppie

26 February | 13:00-17:00 | Historical Studies Department | Workshop
Philippe Beaujard (University Paris I-Sorbonnne)
East Africa and Ancient Globalizations
Thomas Vernet (University Paris I-Sorbonnne)
Looking at the Coast from the Mainland. The Swahili City-States, their Neighbours and Beyond:
Networks and Power, ca.1590 – 1730
Pamilla Gupta (WISER, Wits)
Island-ness in the Indian Ocean
Adrien Delmas (IFAS Johannesburg)
Portuguese Encounters with African Written Cultures: The Chronique of Kilwa
Discussants: Nigel Worden (UCT), Bodhisatva Kar (UCT), Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge)

27 February | 14:00-16:00 | CISA, Wits |Seminar
Thomas Vernet (University Paris I-Sorbonnne)
The Shifting Identity of the Swahili: Local Accounts, Historiography and the Mechanisms of Social
Hierarchy during the Early Modern Era
Discussant: Pamila Gupta (WISER, Wits)

Appel à communications: Histoire institutionnelle du dispositif d’aide sénégalais/REAF 2014

Vous trouverez ci-dessous un appel à communication pour un panel intitulé
« Histoire institutionnelle du dispositif d?aide sénégalais : travailler sur des terrains sans archives ? », qui sera organisé dans le cadre des 3ème rencontres des Études africaines en France du 30 juin au 1er juillet 2014 à Bordeaux.

Les propositions de communication (titre + 600 mots) doivent être envoyées aux organisatrices avant le 20 mars 2014.
Appel.comm_REAF. 2014

Soirée Monde Ouvrier (22 février, Saint Nazaire)

Veuillez trouver ci-joint le programme de la soirée Monde Ouvrier , une soirée clôturée par un débat sur la question du genre au travail.
invitation soiree monde ouvrier